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WYCF General Grant Application

Reviewer: Distribution Committee Program Area: DIsaster Relief

ORGANIZATION INFORMATION

American Red Cross of Wyoming Director: Mr. Spencer Pollock Cheyenne, WY 82001 Phone: 307-363-2526 Mission

The mission of the American Red Cross is to alleviate human suffering in the face of disasters and emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. History

The American Red Cross of Wyoming (ARC) has been serving the citizens of this state since 1914. Today the ARC provides services statewide including the following core services: Disaster Preparedness and Response:This program provides citizens with the skills to effectively prepare for, cope and recover from disasters. These services also assist citizens in meeting their physical and emotional needs when affected by small disasters like a single family fire or larger man-made or natural disasters. Disaster relief assistance includes shelter, food , clothing, replacement medicines, household items and crisis mental health support. Health and Safety Program Services: The ARC trains individuals to prevent and respond to medical emergencies such as a heart attack, choking, personal injuries and drowning. The ARC provides a wide variety of safety training in CPR/First Aid, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), Bloodbourne Pathogens, Life Guard Training, Water Safety and Swimming Instruction. Armed Forces Emergency Services: This program provides continuous emergency services for Active Duty, Reserve and National Guard service members and their immediate and extended families including: an official communication link between military personnel and their families; verification of emergency situations including birth, serious illness and death notifications; and health and welfare inquiries. PROJECT INFORMATION

Board Participation: 100% Requested Amount: $15,000.00 Program Name: Capacity Building: Home Fire Campaign focus Summary The American Red Cross of Wyoming minimizes the risk of injuries, reduces life-threatening situations, and saves lives during disastrous situations. As a leader in preparedness, response, and recovery operations, we act as a convener to build upon our strong network of volunteers, donors, and partners. PROPOSAL NARRATIVE

Description

The American Red Cross works to enhance and expand its reach throughout the communities in Wyoming, helping people to prepare for, respond to emergencies, and recover from disasters. Also, we provide health and safety services and to support military families. One of our SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time Bound) goals is to make Wyoming one of the most prepared states in the nation and to ensure highest quality service delivery to its clients and communities. The following are the core program components: Disaster Services: Provides citizens with the skills to effectively prepare for, cope with, and recover from disasters such as home fires and floods. Disaster relief assistance includes financial assistance for immediate needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and case management. Disaster clients are provided with direct services within 2 hours of the Red Cross being contacted. Clients' basic survival needs are met (food, clothing, shelter, eye glasses,

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medicines and other services, with follow-up care provided such as mental health support) and client satisfaction surveys are collected. Health & Safety: The program trains people to prevent and respond to medical emergencies such as heart attacks, choking, personal injuries, and drowning via CPR, First Aid, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), Wilderness & Remote First Aid, Life Guard Training, and others. The rate of students successfully completing certification classes is tracked. Services to Armed Forces (SAF): The program provides continuous emergency services for Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard service members, veterans and their immediate and extended families, offering: an official communication link between military personnel and their families when deployed; financial assistance; coping with deployment and other resiliency courses. Armed Forces Emergency Services cases are reviewed to ensure services were provided in a proper and timely manner to the Veterans' community, active service members and Wyoming National Guard troops/airmen. Expected Outcome and Sustainability The American Red Cross of Wyoming has had another year of fulfilling our promise to be the best part of folks' worst days. As a recent example of our disaster preparedness and coordination with first responders and the community at large, the Cheyenne community had a particularly rough house fire where an elderly gentleman and his in-home caretaker were killed. By the time crews arrived, the fire was intense and rescue was not a viable option. For any first responder, those are the kind of calls that are particularly troubling. Following the fire, our collective fire service and Red Cross communities organized a knock-on-doors Sound the Alarm event for the neighborhood surrounding the home fire site where nearly 40 folks from our community, including the firefighters who had tried to get the victims out of the structure, met to work together to fulfill our mission. We prevented future human suffering by knocking on nearly 300 doors and installing 150 smoke alarms and another 100 batteries while talking to folks about home fires. Likely, the bigger win for the day was the peace of mind and expressed appreciation for the opportunity by the fire crews who were rendered helpless a week before. The Sound the Alarm opportunity does as much, if not more for the firefighters as it does for our neighbors. It is our intention to build ongoing capacity to provide the highest quality service delivery to our clients and communities. We use metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of our existing programs and activities such as the "Sound the Alarm" Home Fire Campaign, Disaster Planning and Readiness, Service to Armed Forces (SAF), and Preparedness, Health & Safety Services (PHSS). The outcome metrics are: increased quality trained individuals and groups to respond to medical emergencies and disasters; increased levels of preparedness of engaged communities; increased community based preparedness, response and recovery plans and exercises, such as sheltering exercises; quick and efficient access to case management intervention/mental health crisis support, financial assistance for critical needs and capacity-building partnerships. The community expects the American Red Cross to be there to help, during small and large disasters. Therefore, we must continue to build capacity by securing needed materials and resources (cots, disaster comfort kits, preparedness bags), developing community partnerships (shelter agreements and other mutual aid), and enhancing our human resources (trained and experienced volunteer leadership). With funding provided by the Wyoming Community Foundation, the American Red Cross of Wyoming will continue to provide disaster response and coordinate resource linkages with local first responder organizations and civic partnership agencies, enabling Wyoming to be one of the most prepared states in the nation. Funding will be used to support staff and volunteer expenses related to providing the core services: Disaster preparedness, readiness (mitigation), response and recovery activities such as disaster survivor financial assistance, disaster materials and supplies, volunteer support, community disaster preparedness education and program operations; supporting the provision of Services to Armed Forces; and supporting the provision of Health and Safety education services. Collaboration The American Red Cross of Wyoming supports and collaborates with local entities such as emergency services/first responder/emergency management agencies -- Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), fire departments, county public health, planning committees, and other non-profit civic and community partners. The collective strength of the Red Cross partnership network of disaster-response volunteers, businesses, schools, and organizations make us an ideal leader to prepare people to face potential challenges when faced with emergencies, mobilize and deploy thousands of people during disasters, reduce loss of life, and provide necessary resources and support during devastating situations. After each disaster response, the coordination between the Red Cross and other first responder agencies is evaluated for effectiveness. Red Cross

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staff members consult with other first responder agencies to troubleshoot problems in service delivery and improve operational efficiency. Budget Narrative The attached organizational budgets for proposed fiscal year 2018 and for prior year estimated results reflects the overall allocated budgeted numbers. With the consolidation of accounting systems, the Red Cross no longer tracks balance sheets at the regional or chapter level. The chapters are operating units of the American National Red Cross, which is one 501(c)3. Because chapters are part of one legal entity, all assets and liabilities of a particular chapter are backed by the organization. While balance sheets are not maintained at a local level, all donations that are restricted for purpose or time within any given chapter or county are recorded at the chapter level and are used to provide the designated services within the chapter to satisfy the restriction.

Wyoming Chapter FY18 Home Fire Campaign Proposed Budget

HFC FY18 Proposed

Financial Assistance 51,656

Smoke Alarms 7,222

Program Materials 312

Door Hangers 74

Compensation 64,342

Total $123,605 Source: NHQ - FPPG

Notes

The Home Fire Campaign (HFC) project budget was calculated using a portion of the region’s Disaster

Department Compensation/Benefits and Financial Assistance budget (CAC and DO), along with the cost of

the smoke alarm’s built into the NHQ budget, and a small amount of program materials, also in the NHQ

budget.

This HFC budget does not include any allocations.

Actual results, to be reported at funders’ request, will also be based on estimates and allocations.

HFC Budgets are changed/refined over the fiscal year.

Red Cross uses an all hazards response model in which regions maximize the impact of the donor dollar by

sharing resources between the fire campaign and other types of disasters.

Home Fire Campaign project budget includes estimates based on the best information available at the

time of submittal.

Wyoming Chapter Board of Directors List FY 2016 – 2017

FIRST NAME

LAST NAME

BUSINESS TITLE BUSINESS NAME CITY

Christine Langley Chief Operating Officer Wyoming Technology Business Center Laramie

Michael Von Flatern President Business Aviators Gillette

Myron Allen Professor University of Wyoming Laramie

Darci Andersson Personal Banker First Interstate Bank Casper

Bill Edwards President & CEO Casper Area Economic Development Alliance, Inc.

Casper

Carolyn Ritschard Key Spouses Group Liaison F.E. Warren Air Force Base F.E. Warren AFB

Gilda Lara Executive Director Casper Area Chamber of Commerce Casper

Jeff VanHorn Chief Executive Officer Mountain View Regional Hospital Casper

Joe Redman General Manager Pinedale Division

QEP Resources Cheyenne

Jonathan Downing Executive Director Wyoming Mining Association Cheyenne

Katie Legerski Executive Director Wyoming Contractors Association Cheyenne

Kristi Wallin State Director Office of U.S. Senator John Barrasso Cheyenne

Steve Lovas Regional President US Bank Cheyenne

Joe Bennick Director – Casper Area Wyoming Technology Business Center Casper

Guy Cameron Director Wyoming Office of Homeland Security Cheyenne

Luke Reiner Major General, U.S. Army The Adjutant General

State of Wyoming Cheyenne

Spencer Pollock Executive Director American Red Cross of Wyoming Cheyenne

American Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming FY18 Wyoming Chapter Proposed Budget

Chapter

REVENUE

Fundraising and Federated Revenue 270,914

In-Kind Contributions 105,055

Contracts 143,546

Products & Services 461,595

TOTAL LOCAL BUDGETED REVENUE 981,110

Support from other ARC Units 1,053,404

TOTAL BUDGETED REVENUE 2,034,514

EXPENSES

Compensation 850,075

Employee Benefits 238,685

Travel & Meetings 85,868

Financial Assistance 294,067

Supplies 34,077

Program Materials 49,415

Equipment Maintenance & Rentals 36,698

Buildings & Occupancy 59,483

Professional Fees 252,769

Contractual Services 88,895

Depreciation 44,482

TOTAL BUDGETED EXPENSES 2,034,514

Wyoming Chapter FY17 est. Final Budget Chapter

REVENUE

Fundraising and Federated Revenue 294,241

In-Kind Contributions 105,055

Contracts 150,026

Products & Services 460,485

TOTAL LOCAL BUDGETED REVENUE 1,009,807

Support from other ARC units 680,403

TOTAL BUDGETED REVENUE 1,690,210

EXPENSES

Compensation 732,373

Employee Benefits 247,310

Travel & Meetings 82,830

Financial Assistance 197,074

Supplies 33,425

Program Materials 70,224

Equipment Maintenance & Rentals 26,848

Buildings & Occupancy 48,346

Professional Fees 124,626

Contractual Services 85,941

Depreciation 41,214

TOTAL BUDGETED EXPENSES 1,690,210

American Red Cross of Wyoming

Balance Sheet statement

With the consolidation of accounting systems, the Red Cross no longer tracks balance sheets at

the regional or chapter level. The chapters are operating units of the American National Red

Cross, which is one 501(c)3. Because chapters are part of one legal entity, all assets and

liabilities of a particular chapter are backed by the organization. While balance sheets are not

maintained at a local level, all donations that are restricted for purpose or time within any given

chapter or county are recorded at the chapter level and are used to provide the designated

services within the chapter to satisfy the restriction.